In Youth I Have Known One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCEE A FEFGFGHH A AIJIAIKK L KMKMKMNN

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In youth I have known one with whom the EarthB
In secret communing held as he with itC
In daylight and in beauty from his birthB
Whose fervid flickering torch of life was litC
From the sun and stars whence he had drawn forthD
A passionate light such for his spirit was fitC
And yet that spirit knew not in the hourE
Of its own fervor what had o'er it powerE
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IIA
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Perhaps it may be that my mind is wroughtF
To a ferver by the moonbeam that hangs o'erE
But I will half believe that wild light fraughtF
With more of sovereignty than ancient loreG
Hath ever told or is it of a thoughtF
The unembodied essence and no moreG
That with a quickening spell doth o'er us passH
As dew of the night time o'er the summer grassH
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Doth o'er us pass when as th' expanding eyeA
To the loved object so the tear to the lidI
Will start which lately slept in apathyJ
And yet it need not be that object hidI
From us in life but common which doth lieA
Each hour before us but then only bidI
With a strange sound as of a harp string brokenK
T' awake us 'Tis a symbol and a tokenK
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Of what in other worlds shall be and givenK
In beauty by our God to those aloneM
Who otherwise would fall from life and HeavenK
Drawn by their heart's passion and that toneM
That high tone of the spirit which hath strivenK
Though not with Faith with godliness whose throneM
With desperate energy 't hath beaten downN
Wearing its own deep feeling as a crownN

Edgar Allan Poe



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